"There is No Time Left" Climate Change, Environmental Threats, and Human Rights in Turkana County, Kenya

Author(s):  
John H. Knox

This chapter examines the application of international human rights law to climate change. Specifically, it looks at whether climate change interferes with the enjoyment of human rights recognized in international law, and how human rights law requires states to protect human rights from such interference. Human rights law imposes procedural and substantive obligations upon states with respect to environmental threats to human rights. States have obligations to ensure that decisions with possible environmental effects are made through a process that provides for examination and dissemination of information about those effects, full and informed participation by those potentially affected, and effective legal remedies. However, there are obstacles to the application of human rights principles to climate change. The chapter describes some of these challenges, such as the difficulty of tracing clear causal links between anthropogenic contributions to climate change and the effects of climate change on the enjoyment of human rights.


Author(s):  
Siobhan McInerney-Lankford ◽  
Mac Darrow ◽  
Lavanya Rajamani
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2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-139
Author(s):  
Naresh Bhakta Adhikari

The paper mainly analyses the environmental threats focusing on climate change to human security in Nepal. Major aspects of human security are interlinked and interconnected in our context. Among them, human security offers much to the vibrant field of environmental security in Nepal. Environmental threats are linked to the overall impact on human survival, well-being, and productivity. A great deal of human security is tied to peoples’ access to natural resources and vulnerabilities to environmental change. The major environmental threats in our context is the climate change which have widespread implications for Nepal, causing impacts to water availability, agricultural production, forestry, among many other detrimental effects. The critical threat of environmental security needs to be taken into serious consideration to save our succeeding generation. This article primarily interpreted the government action towards emerging environmental threat based on realist approach. For the study of theme of this article, descriptive and analytical research has been used to draw present major environmental threats in Nepal. With consideration to factors, this article attempted to identify the major environmentally vulnerable areas that are likely to hamper the overall status of human security in Nepal. This paper also tried to suggest the measures to enhance the environmental security considering prospects and policy focusing on Nepalese diverse aspects.


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